Last night we watched a program on Nova about solar technology and its benefits and costs. One thing that struck us was how different the approach is between the US and Canada. In the US there are tax benefits and subsidies that encourage individual homeowners to deploy alternate energy solutions to reduce demand on the [...]
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Solar Dawn
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Old Computers?
Posted in Technology on March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Reading an article in today’s Globe and Mail about where technology gadgets should go to die made me think about life spans vs useful lifespans and how technology vendors encourage a cycle of waste. Back when I was a software developer we used to joke about the tradeoffs between good/cheap/quick — and management could get [...]
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